| Average Customer Rating: 3.0/5
Total Reviews: 17 |
Rating: 4
A genuine bargain
| A good buy for the price. I live in a very rural area so the unit required an external self-powered FM antenna and a wire AM antenna, both of which I already had installed. Any radio used here requires external antennas. Reception by this unit is very good. Sound quality is excellent for attached CD and tape players. Simultaneously drives two big old Bic Studio Monitor speakers, and two utility speakers in another room, with fine quality distorion free sound. No problems. |
Rating: 1
Was I disappointed!
I read the reviews and figured this receiver would fit my needs. What I didn't expect was to have to take it to a repair center as soon as I got it to fix the loud hum from the speakers. That was today and they estimate that it will be three weeks before I get it back. I wish I had never bought it.
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Rating: 2
No tape monitor feature
It has been 15 years since I last shopped for a stereo receiver, and back then there were certain features that all receivers came with, regardless of how basic or inexpensive the model was. Well, I took for granted that they all still came with these basic features, and I was wrong. I just purchased the Sherwood RX-4105, and it does not have the tape monitoring feature. It has tape input and output jacks, but it doesn't have the monitoring feature that lets you listen to the tape deck's output while you are recording. If you press the tape button, the receiver switches away from the input source you are trying to record from! The tape monitor function is also necessary for the use of an equalizer. It baffles me that they are still giving you tape in and out jacks, but don't give you the proper switching for monitoring. I guess they figured they could save a few pennies by leaving out this function, since the demand for tape decks has declined in recent years. Unfortunately, there are those of us who still like to use an EQ to customize the sound to our environment, even if we are no longer recording on tape. I have found it difficult to verify whether or not a receiver has this function, since the specs and features list usually never mentions it. If they have a good picture of the unit, you can look to see if there is a button that says "tape monitor." Just looking for tape in and out jacks will not help, because as I mentioned above, the RX-4105 has these jacks, but no monitor function. Then there are some models that have monitoring even though the switch only says "tape." The best way to know for sure is to try out the unit first, but this is not practical when shopping online. I have even gone so far as to go to the manufacturer's website and download the instruction manual. If the section on tape connections and recording doesn't mention "monitoring," it probably doesn't have it. Also, many models no longer have phono input, but this is easy to check just by looking at a good picture of the unit. The RX-4105 also lacks an auxillary AC jack on the back of the unit; not a big deal, but a consideration if you have an outlet strip already filled up by other components. Another thing I noted that is worth mentioning is that many newer models such as this one have volume control knobs that do not have any position indicators or scale markings on them; so be sure to turn down the volume before you turn off the unit, or you could be in for a surprise when you turn it back on again!
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